Inverness, CA Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 6.1 miles west of Inverness, CA
The coast 6.1 miles west of Inverness, CA is actually gaining ground, not losing it: USGS's transects measure 0.27 feet of accretion a year here, sediment building up rather than washing away. At that rate, the shoreline has gained roughly 2.7 feet over the last decade.
The grain of this number
Inverness, CA is the nearest named place, 6.1 miles away, to a ~3.5-mile stretch of coast USGS has surveyed - the reading below covers that whole stretch, not a single property in it. Segment center: 38.10, -122.97. Survey years: 1852-2016, method LRR, from USGS's California shoreline-change assessment. That's how current the data is here, real, but not a live feed, since a shoreline survey is a major undertaking, not an annual check-in.
What 0.27 ft/yr means over time
Holding the 0.27 ft/yr accretion rate 6.1 miles west of Inverness, CA for 25 years would add roughly 7 feet of shoreline, again assuming nothing about the local sediment supply changes.
What backs this reading up
110 transects feed this segment's number; 1% of them individually measured retreat. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.21 ft/yr. This segment ranks 959 of 1211 measured US coastal segments, ordered from fastest erosion to fastest growth. Source: USGS National Shoreline Change data release (ScienceBase, DOI 10.5066/P94J0K7Z), Kratzmann 2024 / Data Report 1187. Rank 1086 nationally for growth belongs to Oxnard, CA, 340 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.86 ft/yr, 3.2x this stretch's rate. 1.8 miles away, Inverness, CA is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
Inverness, CA on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.